Christopher Columbus High School - Anchor Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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STAIRCASES The freshies go up Where seniors go down. The freshie's a pup The senior's a clown. EILEEN PRICE I've sweated, I've worried, rm getting gray hair, With Regents and homework and teachers who stare. With Eco and English and Bio a cinch, I've given up sailors for homework in French. And why have I suffered four years in great grief? My diploma in June, explains it in ioriefi How long I have waited for my senior term! The prom plus the class night and no more to learn. But now it has come full of douht and fond hope, Vvirh curfew at midnight the prom's just a joke. The hoys in the service maices five girls to one. With that great arrangement, we're sure to have fun. it's tough with no music, no drinks and no men, I sure wish that I were a freshman again! FOUR YEARS Freshmen with their woeful looks Vvaiic around with hig fat hooks. sophomores seem to he so wise They act like seniors in disguise. Juniors feel so very high One more year and then goodhye. Seniors yell, Can it he true: How the hecic did we get through? MURIEL LEFF ADRIENNE VENEZIA The hail was hushed, the air was tense The crowd sat forward in suspense One without much speculation Could guess that this was graduation Suddenly there was a sound, Like the hooming of a drum, Upon inspection it was found That our 'senior hats had come. JUNE ATLAS o

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VERSE When from classes they return To don their coats and hats, It does not talce them long to learn That coats are used as mats. ROSANNE GRIMALDI A D WCRSE Here we sit and waste the day, So the teachers get their payg While our minds are off at wars, Vve must listen to these bores. CONSTANCE LOVECCHIO There once was a pupil named Glenn How he loved just to draw with a pen He would slcetch while in class Some pretty young lass Next term he toolc English again. ABE Scuwfxnrz Poor little Regents hook weary and worn, Your first page is tattered, your last page is torn. lnto a chaotic life you were horn, Battered and hullied and treated with scorn. TllCfC OIICC WHS H SCIllOl' Hamed Tom Vvho wanted to go to the prom. Of girls there were plenty, But his poclcets were empty, So he stayed right at home with his mom. MARIANNE KOLEN O, trashhaslcet upon the Hoor, 'Tis you. 'tis you whom I ahhor. You run my stoclcing, Scratch my leg, And though it's shoclcing, I do heg, O yOlI of Tama, wood. 01' straw, My lower limhs to please ignore. FLORENCE WINKLER In Columbus there once was a fellow, There once was a freshman called Percy Who wanted to he mild and mellow, On whom none of the seniors had mercy So Home Arts he studied, And kitchens he muddied, They directed him wrongly They cursed at him strongly He wound up instead malcing Jello. And this is the end of my versy. SONIA STABSKY 18 JUDITH WETSTEIN

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Letter to a Prospective Freshie Dear,-0-- in your iast ietter you mentioned somewhat casuaiiy that you were planning to enter Coiumbus this term. Evidently your education has been sadly neglected, to say the ieast, if you are considering such a step with ievity. Niethinics that it is my duty to bestow the advice which thou art badly in need of. First of aii, never beiieve a seniori All other commandments are secondary unto that. Columbus has nox swimming pooi on the fifth iioor,-fit has no fifth iioori There is no necessity for purchasing passes to the iunchroom. The only requirement im- posed is: If you have not made up your iast wiii and testament-fthinic weii about so doing before entering the C.C.H.S. cafeteria. HUpn staircases go down as weii as up. Any frosh might easily be snowed under by upper termers as he wariiy starts going up an uUp. Teachers donit reaiiy bite. They just go around iooicing iiice that to intimidate students and aiienate peopie. Do not buy the schooi eievator-they stiii wouidnit iet you use it. Learn the proper ciasses to do homework for and the right times to be prepared. Every learned Coiumbusite has evoived a system for beating the homeworic game. They can teii by the very expression on the teacher,s face if he intends following up the assignment that he's iniiicting at the moment. And ii you ucutf' you must maintain an expression oi compiete innocence fhowever diiiiicuit that may bei and waiic, not run, out of the building. There are certain tips which, unfortunateiy, cannot be expressed on paper. iiii have to wait untii I see you to impart those. In short, embark upon your Columbus career with caution! Watch your stepi i'ii do my best to heip you avoid the inevitable freshman pitfalls. Good luck, ireshie. It's not such a iong stretch. I was a freshman once myself. EILEEN PRICE EPITAPH Here iie the Seniors who died in expectation Vvaiting for the hats, the prom, and graduation! Ensns EICHNER Z0